MND NewsWirehttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/news/MND NewsWire : Housing and Economic NewsenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31106.96)CoreLogic sees Continued "Strong and Progressive Uptick in Prices"http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03032015_corelogic_hpi.aspTue, 03 Mar 2015 19:34:56 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:438072Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=438072http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03032015_corelogic_hpi.asp#comments<p>Home prices, including sales of distressed properties,
<b>continued to appreciate</b> on both an annual and a monthly basis in January.&nbsp; CoreLogic said that its Home Price Index
including sales of foreclosed property and short sales, increased 5.7 percent
in January compared to one year earlier.&nbsp;
On a monthly basis the increase was 1.1 percent. </p>
<p>Including distressed sales, <b>only Maryland and Connecticut
</b>showed negative home price appreciation at -0.3 percent and -1.9 percent
respectively.&nbsp; The five states with the
highest home price appreciation were Colorado (9.1 percent), Michigan (9.0
percent), Texas and Wyoming (8.3 percent each), and Nevada (7.6 percent.)</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03032015_corelogic_hpi.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/438072/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=438072" width="1" height="1">Vacancies up, Rents Moderate, but 2015 still Looks Solid for Multifamily http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_housing_forecasts.aspTue, 03 Mar 2015 19:04:09 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437849Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437849http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_housing_forecasts.asp#comments<p>The
multifamily market <b>outperformed </b>many predictions in 2014; vacancy levels,
despite a flood of new properties, declined by 10 basis points from 2013 to a
13-year low of 4.2 percent. Revenue per unit rose, continuing the pattern that
has led to a 20 percent increase over the last five years. </p>
<p>Freddie
Mac's economists are <b>predicting </b>that, while easing a bit from 2014, this year will
be<b> another strong one</b> for the sector.&nbsp;
Its <i>2015 Multifamily Outlook</i>
projects that demand, driven by the millennial generation, will remain strong
but construction of units in buildings with five or more will continue to trend
upward so vacancies will rise.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Supply,
they say, could actually outpace demand this year and the <b>vacancy rate will
probably rise </b>by 60 basis points to 4.8 percent by year-end.&nbsp; This however is still below the historic
average of 5.4 percent.&nbsp; This negative is
tempered by an unknown; how much pend-up demand will be unleashed as households
form that would have been formed earlier were it not for the recession.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_housing_forecasts.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437849/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437849" width="1" height="1">FHFA Sets Rules for Bulk Loan Saleshttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_delinquent_loan_sales.aspMon, 02 Mar 2015 21:26:13 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437864Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437864http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_delinquent_loan_sales.asp#comments<p>The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), conservator of
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs), released <b>guidelines for their sales of
non-performing mortgage loans</b>. &nbsp;FHFA earlier
approved sales as a mechanism to reduce the investment portfolios of the two enterprises
and to transfer some of the risk of their delinquent loans to the private
sector.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;FHFA said it believes that the sale of
severely delinquent loans through non-performing loan (NPL) sales will both reduce
GSE losses and improve borrower and neighborhood outcomes.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Bulk sales of delinquent debt is done on a <b>substantially
discounted</b> basis and in the case of secured debt investors generally bid on the
basis of the value of the underlying collateral. With rising home prices the attractiveness
of such debt has increased as has demand for it and there has been concern that
investors will fast-track foreclosures once they own the debt.&nbsp; </p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_delinquent_loan_sales.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437864/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437864" width="1" height="1">Construction Spending Eased in January; Most Segments Higher on Annual Basishttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_construction_spending.aspMon, 02 Mar 2015 16:32:22 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437777Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437777http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_construction_spending.asp#comments<p>Both publicly and privately funded construction<b> dipped
slightly in January</b> from February levels the Census Bureau said today, although
both total construction and the publicly funded segment did remain above
January 2014 levels.&nbsp; Construction put in
place in all categories during the month was at a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of $971.4 billion, 1.1 percent lower than the estimated $982.0 billion
spent in December.&nbsp; The number was 1.8
percent higher than the January 2014 estimate of $954.6 billion. </p>
<p>On a non-seasonally adjusted basis spending in January was
estimated at $67.3 billion compared to 76.0 billion in December and 66.5
billion a year earlier.&nbsp; This was an
annual increase of 1.2 percent.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/03022015_construction_spending.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437777/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437777" width="1" height="1">Construction Industry Optimism at 20-year Highhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_construction_forecast.aspFri, 27 Feb 2015 19:39:57 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437058Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437058http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_construction_forecast.asp#comments<p>While its ultimate focus is the future
of the construction equipment business, Wells Fargo's Equipment Finance
division has some <b>predictions for residential construction</b> as well.&nbsp; The company's <i>2015 Construction Industry Forecast</i>, presents results of a survey it
has conducted for the last 19 years of industry executives representing large
and small contractors as well as equipment distributorships and equipment rental
companies.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Wells Fargo's survey attempts to track<b>
industry optimism </b>using what it calls the Optimism Quotient (OQ).&nbsp; John Crum, National Sales Manager for the
Equipment Finance Construction Group said that, after tumbling to an all-time
low of 42 in January 2009, the OQ has climbed steadily, reaching new highs in
three of the last four years and landing this year at 130, up six points from
2014.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_construction_forecast.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437058/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437058" width="1" height="1">Homebuyers were Busy in January; Pending Sales Risehttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02272015_pending_home_sales.aspFri, 27 Feb 2015 16:27:19 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437355Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437355http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02272015_pending_home_sales.asp#comments<p>Even though sales of existing homes dropped by 4.9 percent
in January buyers were apparently out shopping and seriously so.&nbsp; The National Association of Realtors&reg; said that its Pending
Home Sales Index (PHSI) climbed to 104.2 in January, a <b>1.7 percent increase</b>
from December and the highest level for the index since August 2013.</p>
<p>The January PHSI was <b>8.4 percent higher</b> than the one for January
2014. &nbsp;It was the fifth consecutive month
of year-over-year gains and NAR said that each month has accelerated the annual
gain from the prior month.&nbsp; In addition
the December number was revised upward from 100.7 to 102.5, erasing about half
of the previously reported 3.7 percent November to December loss.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02272015_pending_home_sales.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437355/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437355" width="1" height="1">By Any Measure FHA's Role is Shrinkinghttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fha_role.aspThu, 26 Feb 2015 17:43:00 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437100Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437100http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fha_role.asp#comments<p>The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) saw its share of
the mortgage market soar to 72 percent of all mortgages issued in 2008 as other
lenders pulled back and FHA moved into one of the two roles it was designed to
fill, as a counterforce providing access to credit <b>when the private sector
pulls back</b>, typically because of economic stress. Since then that share has
steadily declined and FHA is back down to around 15-17 percent.</p>
<p>In a recent entry in the National Association of Realtor's&reg; <i>Economist Commentaries</i>, Ken
Fears, NAR's Director of Regional Economics and Housing Finance, says that
with the recent changes in FHA's insurance premiums it is worth reviewing the
agency's impact on the market.&nbsp; First, he
says, unit volume as above is <b>only one way to measure FHA's market share</b>. It can be viewed as a share of:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fha_role.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437100/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437100" width="1" height="1">Q4 Home Price Gains Outpace Inflation -FHFAhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fhfa_hpi.aspThu, 26 Feb 2015 17:13:20 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:437067Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=437067http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fhfa_hpi.asp#comments<p>The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said today that
<b>home prices</b> in the fourth quarter of 2014 were <b>up 1.4 percent</b> compared to the
previous quarter and 4.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013.&nbsp; The fourth quarter was the fourteenth
consecutive one in which the agency's purchase only House Price Index (HPI)
increased on a seasonally adjusted basis from the prior quarter.&nbsp; </p>
<p>The
monthly HPI for December, also reported today, was up<b> 0.8 percent from
November.</b> This measure has increased for 23 of
the last 24 months with the single decreased registered in November 2013</p>
<p>FHFA's index is calculated using home sales price
information from mortgages sold to or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac.&nbsp; An expanded data index using
transaction information from county recorders' offices and the FHA was up 1.3
percent quarter-over-quarter and was 6.0 percent higher than in the fourth
quarter of 2013.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02262015_fhfa_hpi.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/437067/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=437067" width="1" height="1">Housing Indicator Continues to Stabilize; Energy States at Riskhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_freddie_mac_mimi.aspWed, 25 Feb 2015 19:43:38 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436821Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436821http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_freddie_mac_mimi.asp#comments<p>Freddie
Mac said on Wednesday that its Multi-Indicator Market Index (MiMi) still shows that,
at the national level, <b>housing is continuing to stabilize</b>.&nbsp; Thirty-eight of the 50 states plus the
District of Columbia are now showing an improving three-month trend as are 40
of the 50 largest metro areas. However, at the same time last year, 47 states plus the District of
Columbia, and 47 of the top 50 metro areas were showing an improving three
month trend. </p>
<p>MiMi monitors and
measures the 50 state and 50 metro areas by looking at home purchase
applications, payment-to-income ratios (changes in home purchasing power based
on house prices, mortgage rates and household income), proportion of on-time
mortgage payments in each market, and the local employment picture. From this
the company creates a composite MiMi value for each market to show, at a
glance, where each stands relative to its own stable range of housing activity
and whether it is moving closer to, or further away from, its stable range. A
market can fall outside its stable range by being too weak to generate enough
demand for a well-balanced housing market or by overheating to an unsustainable
level of activity.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_freddie_mac_mimi.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436821/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436821" width="1" height="1">Black Knight Notes Home Price Declinehttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_black_knight_hpi.aspWed, 25 Feb 2015 19:40:58 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436457Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436457http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_black_knight_hpi.asp#comments<p>The
Home Price Index (HPI) report issued this week by Black Knight Financial
Services shows the December national index at $241,000, a <b>-0.1 percent change
</b>from November.&nbsp; The HPI has increased by
4.6 percent since December 2013, and is now 10.2 percent below the peak of $268,000
it stablished in June 2006.</p>
<p>The<b> largest monthly
increases </b>were in New York and Colorado, each of which saw its HPI increase by
0.5 percent.&nbsp; Colorado has been
establishing new price peaks regularly for over a year and the December
increase brought New York to within 0.6 of its pre-crisis high.&nbsp; These two were followed by Oregon, Florida,
Oklahoma, and Arizona, each with gains of 0.3 percent. </p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_black_knight_hpi.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436457/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436457" width="1" height="1">90-day Delinquencies Increasingly Ended in Foreclosure Last Monthhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_black_knight_first_look.aspWed, 25 Feb 2015 19:40:10 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436792Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436792http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_black_knight_first_look.asp#comments<p>Black Knight Financial Services has released a <b>"first look"</b>
at its month-end January mortgage performance statistics.&nbsp; The company regularly previews data that is
covered in a more comprehensive form in its <i>Mortgage
Monitor</i> scheduled for publication on March 9.</p>
<p>The number of properties for which mortgages are 30 days
past due but not yet in foreclosure<b> declined by 50,000 </b>in January to 2.81
million.&nbsp; The 30-day delinquency rate was
down 11 percent from a year earlier to 5.56 percent of all homes in the U.S.
with a mortgage.&nbsp; Serious delinquencies, i.e.
properties that are 90 or more days past due but not in foreclosure, declined
by 20,000 from December and 177,000 from a year earlier to 1.11 million</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_black_knight_first_look.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436792/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436792" width="1" height="1">Northeast Drags Down New Home Saleshttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_new_home_sales.aspWed, 25 Feb 2015 15:49:09 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436781Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436781http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_new_home_sales.asp#comments<p>Sales of newly constructed single-family homes <b>dipped only slightly
</b>in January from December levels.&nbsp; The U.S.
Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Developing said today that
January sales were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000.&nbsp; That rate was 0.2 percent below the slightly
revised December estimate of 482,000 units.&nbsp;
The original December number, also 481,000, had represented an 11.6
percent surge from November.</p>
<p>January's rate of new home sales was <b>5.3 percent above</b> those
in the same month in 2014 which were estimated at 457,000 units.&nbsp; On a non-seasonally adjusted basis there were
an estimated 36,000 new homes sold in January compared to 34,000 in December
and 33,000 a year earlier.&nbsp; </p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_new_home_sales.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436781/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436781" width="1" height="1">Purchase Apps Pick Up Some Slack From Falling Refi Volumehttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_application_volume.aspWed, 25 Feb 2015 13:59:36 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436667Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436667http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_application_volume.asp#comments<p>Mortgage applications
<b>declined again</b> during the week ended February 20.&nbsp; The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said
that its Market Composite Index, a measure of application volume, was down 3.5
percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the week ended February 13.&nbsp; There was also an adjustment to the data to
account for the Presidents' Day Holiday which fell during the week.&nbsp; On a non-adjusted basis the volume was down
12 percent from the previous week.</p>
<p>Refinancing activity<b>
continued to retreat</b>.&nbsp; The Refinance Index decreased
8 percent from the previous week and the refinancing
share of applications fell from 66 percent to 62 percent, the fourth decline in
five weeks. </p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02252015_application_volume.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436667/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436667" width="1" height="1">Clear Regional Patterns as Home Prices Falterhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_case_shiller_indices.aspTue, 24 Feb 2015 16:24:30 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436436Jann Swanson0http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436436http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_case_shiller_indices.asp#comments<p>Despite increases in 2014 that
were twice that of inflation, <b>house prices are "faltering."</b>&nbsp; The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller composite city indices
for December were nearly flat while the National index was slightly
negative.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Both the 10-City and 20-City
Composite indices posted year-over-year increases in December compared to those
increases in November.&nbsp; The 10-City had
an annual gain of 4.3 percent compared to 4.2 percent in November, the 20-city
was up 4.5 percent compared to 4.3 percent the previous month.&nbsp; The National Home Price Index (HPI) had an<b>
annual gain of 4.6 percent</b> against 4.7 percent in November.&nbsp; </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02242015_case_shiller_indices.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436436/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436436" width="1" height="1">Battle for Listings Between Realtors and Zillow Group Set to Intensifyhttp://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02232015_realtors_zillow_mls.aspMon, 23 Feb 2015 20:45:27 GMT2bb7a989-b681-446d-a7f2-bd5f0562f228:436267Jann Swanson1http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/news/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=436267http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02232015_realtors_zillow_mls.asp#comments<p>There appears to be a <b>battle </b>in the making between
Realtor.com, which has provided on-line nationwide residential listing
information since the Internet was only a novelty and upstarts Zillow and
Trulia.&nbsp; Both companies have made their
own radical changes in the last six months with Realtor.com operator Move Inc.
being sold and Trulia merging into Zillow.</p>
<p>Realtor.com's relationship with the<b> National Association of
Realtors</b> has always been a bit opaque.&nbsp;
Starting in the mid-1990s Move Inc., then called RealSelect but operating
principally as Homestore (remember those glass boxes with home listings
scattered through airport concourses?) began managing listings of Realtors
nationwide. </p>...(<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/02232015_realtors_zillow_mls.asp">read more</a>)<p><div style="background-color:#D4EDC9;border:1px solid #BDD4B3;padding:3px 5px 3px 6px; color:#000000;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><strong>Forward this article via email:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/channels/436267/3/forward.aspx" style="color:#3333CC;">Send a copy of this story</a> to someone you know that may want to read it.</div></p><img src="http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=436267" width="1" height="1">